Show I ATTORNEY GENERAL G RAl I AGAINST TAXING FOOD I London XA Oct 19 Speaking at layer Inver Inverness ness tonight Sir Robert the tho th attorney general said Aid he be h did not favor the taxation of ot food toed as a a method of ot giving preference to the colonies He thought the threat of retaliatory duties to be a strong weapon with which the government gov might secure ure wider mar markets markets market ket tot for British BItt trade He doubted the efficacy of 01 preferential treatment to the end nd of ot consolidating the empire em pi end and said he be thought an imperial coun council cil cli II in which the colonies would have hae a 3 ashare ashare share In the affairs of the empire would do du more to bring about consolidation 1 t than any conceivable tariff system a Ii |